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In every area of practice, WilmerHale brings the insight, dedication to excellence, and commitment to client service needed for our clients to achieve their business objectives. Our five-department structure and team approach to service enable us to provide the highest level of responsiveness and access to lawyers with the most appropriate experience.

Patrick J. Carome has handled a wide variety of high stakes litigation in both trial and appellate courts. He devotes much of his time to representation of communications and media companies in complex litigation and counseling matters. In recent years, many of his clients have been leading Internet companies.

Mr. Carome's areas of substantive expertise include defamation, privacy, copyright, trademark, press freedoms, trade secrets and general tort and contract laws. He has represented a broad range of clients on these and other issues, including AOL, Time Warner, craigslist, eBay, Google, Yahoo!, The Washington Post, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, ABC, Cable News Network and the American Legacy Foundation.

Experience

Mr. Carome began his legal career as a staff attorney for The Washington Post. He briefly left the firm to serve (from 1987 to 1988) as staff counsel to the US House of Representatives Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran.

Publications & News

In this article published in The Recorder, co-author Patrick Carome discusses the landmark ruling in Zeran v. AOL, a pillar of the legal framework that has permitted revolutionary services such as Google, Facebook and Twitter to exist and thrive.

Best Lawyers in America®—the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal industry—recognizes 107 WilmerHale lawyers and names nine partners as Lawyers of the Year in its 24th edition.

Chambers and Partners announced its rankings for the 2017 edition of Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business, with WilmerHale listed among the nation's best in 50 practice area categories. Chambers also ranked 86 WilmerHale lawyers as leaders in their respective fields.

The firm received the Litigation of the Year – Cartel Defence award for its representation of Denso and the Litigation of the Year – Cartel Prosecution award for its representation of candy-maker Katjes.

Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business announced its final rankings for the 2016 edition, with WilmerHale ranking among the nation's best in 47 practice area categories. Chambers also ranked 82 WilmerHale lawyers as leaders in their respective fields.

Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business announced its final rankings for the 2015 edition, with WilmerHale ranking among the nation's best in 46 practice area categories. Chambers also ranked 86 WilmerHale attorneys as leaders in their respective fields.

Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business today announced its final rankings for the 2013 edition, in which 93 WilmerHale lawyers and 44 firm practice areas have been recognized as leading in their field.

Representation of Salt Lake Tribune Publishing Company in a complex battle in both federal and state courts over ownership of the largest newspaper in Utah, including three separate appellate victories in the Tenth Circuit.

Successful defense of the American Legacy Foundation (the sponsor and creator of the nation's leading anti-tobacco counter-marketing campaign) against claims by a leading tobacco company in the Delaware Chancery Court and the Delaware Supreme Court.

Successful representations of the National Security Archive and Consumers Checkbook in suits under the Freedom of Information Act against (respectively) the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of Health and Human Services.

Professional Activities

Mr. Carome is an Editorial Adviser to Bloomberg BNA. Mr. Carome previously served as co-chair of the Media Law Resource Center's Committee on Cyberlaw, chair of the Committee on Government Information and Right to Privacy of the American Bar Association's Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section, and chair of the Steering Committee of the Administrative Law and Agency Practice Section of the District of Columbia Bar.

Mr. Carome co-authored a chapter entitled "Third-Party Content Liability in the United States," which appeared in the book Internet Law for the Business Lawyer (2001). He also is the co-author of a chapter entitled "Personal Privacy" that appears in the treatise Litigation Under the Federal Open Government Laws (14th through 24th editions, 1990-2008). He has written numerous articles concerning application of defamation and tort laws to interactive computer services that have been published in Internet Law & Business, the Journal of Internet Law, Global Telecoms Business, and the Legal Times.

In every area of practice, WilmerHale brings the insight, dedication to excellence, and commitment to client service needed for our clients to achieve their business objectives. Our five-department structure and team approach to service enable us to provide the highest level of responsiveness and access to lawyers with the most appropriate experience.